Category: Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head

The most famous expressions of it are found in the world's great cities. But it's also scratched in caves and carved on rock walls. And it's also pinned beneath fridge magnets in kitchens everywhere. Art, Marc Chagall said, must be an expression of love, or it is nothing. No doubt about it ... art is

Most place its origins on chemical imbalances, or poor nutrition, or heredity ... or even on bad karma from past lives. But with the new discoveries in psycho-socio-pathology, it's now possible to lay the blame squarely on our shoulders. Let's face it ... if we're sick or troubled, somewhere in our psychology, that's what we

The faces of its perpetrators are hidden behind hoods and stockings. Its acts are captured on hand-held home video cameras in dank prisons or God knows where. Its strikes are sudden and unexpected. But we think of it only in terms of our enemies. We, we declare self-righteously, never engage in terrorism. Today on Thinking

Trilogical science has been around for half a century. In that time, it's identified essential aspects of the human psyche. It's allowed us to analyze our myriad personal and social issues. And it's elaborated new work and living structures that solve many long-standing inequalities. And one more thing - Trilogy is calling some new people

They can be downright weird or totally logical. Recurring or one-off experiences. Most of them we dismiss the moment we wake from them. But some of them stay with us like messengers that have something to tell us. And it's significant that the greatest psychological investigators placed a lot of stock in them. And today,

Almost a century ago we had a war to end all wars. But we could say we've had nothing but since! Millions dead. Homes torn apart. Artistic and philosophical movements stopped dead in their tracks. While some may rhapsodize about the war years being the best years of their lives, perhaps this is an example

Spending on medical technology is growing. Drug prescriptions are flying out of doctor's offices. Drug companies are throwing new drugs on the market continually. And all this vaunted "medical care" is killing us in record numbers. We're getting sicker and sicker. And our medical perspective is leading us further and further from a solution. Today

He's widely considered one of the greatest scientific geniuses of all time. A humbe civil servant, he rose from obscurity to change the world of science - and alter how we see the world. He was known and famous for his Theory of Relativity. Only one problem - Einstein's scientific theory was fundamentally flawed. Today

We spend our most formative years in it. The best years of our lives, they call it. And in these years, we ostensibly learn invaluable lessons for the rest of our lives. Still, I can't help but remember Einstein's thoughts about it: "Education is what remains after you've forgotten everything you learned in school." Today

Some say it comes from our social inequality. Others that greed and the lust for power are behind it. Still others say it's just our nature. We're too soon out of the jungle. But these are unsatisfactory to those working to solve the question, "Why is human society in such terrible shape?" Now, here in